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What to look for in a career change from accounting

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If you are an accounting professional who has been contemplating a change in career path, you’re not alone. Accountants have the knowledge and experience necessary to work as trusted advisors to the public or within a company, so your certification qualifies you for a variety of career paths. But where do you start?

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Accountants Are the Referees of Business, Says Guy Who Would Know

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There’s another article about the accountant shortage today and this time it’s in Insider. Kachelmeier has seen accounting majors decline between 20% to 40% over the past few years at his school and like many in the profession he believes that the key to fixing the shortage lies in pitching accounting to young people.

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Streamlining procurement processes: A case study with Airbase and Doximity.

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The biggest thing for me is I need to have controls, but I also want employees to have an enjoyable experience,” Doximity’s Senior Director of Accounting, Alexander Schlick, told Airbase’s VP of Marketing, Michael Freeman. The finance team had to sort through all that spend, categorize it, and make sure it was authorized.”

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Working in the Big Four seems to be more limited to just like, CFO or chief finance type roles.” Optionality for different careers later on was probably the No.

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AICPA Says it Has a Plan to Fix the CPA Talent Shortage

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One of the biggest questions currently being asked by many throughout the accounting profession is, “How can we make accounting more appealing to students?” There’s plenty of accounting jobs out there that need to be filled— more than 300,000 accountants and auditors have left the profession in the past few years.

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Michael Scarpelli on his action-packed path to becoming Snowflake’s CFO.

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The possibility of travel was initially what drew Michael to finance. Growing up in Sarnia, Ontario, he tentatively planned on a medical career, but mostly just wanted to get out of Sarnia. Uncovering fraud: A crash course in finance leadership. My real passion was doing M&A support.” It always has to pass the smell test.”

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Friday Footnotes: Bob Moritz Disappoints Us; ERC Window Slamming Shut; 2024 Sucks For Firms? | 3.22.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Look no further, Accountingfly’s top remote accounting candidates of the week are here.